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There's no evidence that they don't see it that way either.
Static and Black Lightning aren't D-List heroes and the path they took to elevating Cyborg wasn't hard. And i'd hardly call Cyborg a B-List hero. It's not as if he gained his own solo show and they had to make that work. He was in a successful animated show years ago and come 2011 they decided to put him on the JLA. In terms of representation, Black Lightning had more than him until that moment, as did Static arguably. You could've placed any black character in that position and the result would've been the same, which is what happened with John Stewart.
Well they didn't age Cyborg up, so its irrelevant. Don't know that i'd say Static's a kid. He's well-known as a teenager, just like Peter Parker. Cyborg in fact is just like Peter, a character that started as a teenager and then grew up, so he's now in his early 20's. You've got Spider-Man over in Marvel also about to be introduced as a teenager, once again, so it's not like a teenager couldn't work.
And i'm not and never have said there wasn't logic behind choosing Cyborg. All i've said is that every reason you've provided either isn't exclusive to him or concerns something that they could've done with anybody.
1. I mean they chose Cyborg. Cyborg has his own stand alone comic series. Cyborg has a movie, Cyborg is who they put in the forefront and Hal Jordan is the main GL. So i don't think i'm stretching.
2. the new 52 him up, he was a teen, now he's 5 years outta high school he was aged up.
3. so what your saying is that DC should make the same mistake marvel did and aging up peter parker? a very expensive mistake that made sony enter an insane faustian bargain with marvel so they could turn him back into a kid?
aging up static shock would be stupid, being young is central to the character, joe quesada had to come up with that insane one more day story line to make peter young again. he's best as a kid, static shock is best as kid.
its irrelvent anyways because they aren't breaking bread with Milestone for static shock of all people.
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